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The recent crisis in North Korea has demonstrated that the country’s political system has a serious problem which, we suspect, will not wither away: it does not merely lack a system through which power is transferred, but it is designed in a way which makes it unlikely that such a system will be created. 

The South Korean government, which has its own reasons to downplay reports of problems in Pyongyang, is hoping to persuade us that April’s media panicwas, essentially, “much